The generous assistance that has been given to the survivors of the terrible earthquake in Southern Italy and Sicily has had a most unfortunate effect. Lieut.-Generals ...
Article : 114 wordsThe annual exhibition of Australian manufactures, held in the Exhibition-building and conducted by the Australian Natives' Association, was opened yesterday ...
Article : 6,652 wordsThere is a strong feeling among many women in Great Britain against the Parliamentary franchise being conferred upon women. As a countermove to the activity ...
Article : 71 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—A terrible shipping calamity occurred in St. Vincent's Gulf during Sunday night. The steamer Clan Ronald, 3,500 tons, wheat laden, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 522 wordsThe South African National Convention, which was summoned to draft a scheme of union of the self-governing states, has reached a crisis in its deliberations. The ...
Article : 105 wordsAt a meeting of the senate of the Sydney University yesterday it was stated that Mr. Hugh Dixson had given the sum of £7,050 to enable the University to purchase the ...
Article : 114 wordsCaptain Gladstone, like the other European members of the crew, is spoken of in the highest terms as a gentleman seaman and navigator. He was about 35 years of ...
Article : 151 wordsMadame Melba, who went to Naples a few days ago to sing on behalf of the earthquake sufferers, left that city yesterday by the R.M.S. Orontes for Australia. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe ex-leader of the Australian Labour party (Mr. J. C. Watson), who is on a visit to South Africa, was accorded a reception on his arrival at Johannesburg. In a speech ...
Article : 108 wordsThe second engineer stated that, just before the vessel sank, ther third engineer proffered him a life-belt. Mr. Fordyee, who is a strong swimmer, and has been ...
Article : 254 wordsQueen Elena of Italy, who with her husband visited the scene of the disaster and assisted in nursing the sufferers, has received from King Edward the insignia of ...
Article : 49 wordsHis many firends will learn with sincere regret of the death of Mr. Thomas Taylor, which took place at his residence, Creswick-street, Hawthorn, it 20 minutes to 3 o'clock ...
Article : 353 wordsThe contributions sent from all parts of the world for the relief of sufferers by the earthquakes in Southern Italy and Sicily have reached a very large amount. ...
Article : 63 wordsSeveral writers belonging to the Sinn Fein party, which is opposed to Parliamentary control in Ireland, have issued a warning to the bishops that then ...
Article : 183 wordsThe United States Government, which last year purchased the rights of Captain Baldwin's military air-ship and invited tenders for a heavier than air machine, intends ...
Article : 73 wordsAnother earthquake is reported from the Mediterranean basin, the portion affected being on the north-western point of Africa, near the Straits of Gibraltar. As a ...
Article : 97 wordsThis evening the commissioner of police (Colonel Madley) received the following telegram from Mr. M. C. Shanks, at Edithburgh:— ...
Article : 56 wordsEvents in China, which a few weeks ago promised an era of reform under the regent, Prince Chun, guided by the counsels of Yuan Shih Kai, the Viceroy of Chih-li, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsShipmasters are not prepared to accept the statement that the shifting of the cargo was the cause. Captain Gibbon, Lloyd's surveyor, stated on Monday that the ...
Article : 271 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Cardinal Moran, having intimated that it was his intention to forward any subscriptions made in the Roman Catholic churches of the diocese to ...
Article : 904 wordsGreat care is being taken by the police of the Russian Hefeld, one of the participators in the Tottenham gold robbery, who, when he found escape was impossible, tried ...
Article : 128 wordsThe emergency committee of the English Rugby Union, which dealt with the complaint of the Scottish Union, that Australasian players touring England had received ...
Article : 120 wordsBy way of reply to the criticism which has been levelled at the Kaiser lately by his own subjects, as well as by foreigners, a "Life of the Kaiser," apparently officially ...
Article : 496 wordsIn accordance with the scheme of administrative reform in India announced by the Imperial Government a few weeks ago, a native member has been added to the ...
Article : 79 wordsAn astate move by President Roosevelt has placed the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in a quandary. Several weeks ago, when the President was in ...
Article : 446 wordsA Rugby football match, between teams representing England and France, was played at Leicester on Saturday. The game resulted in a victory for the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe steamer was loaded by the Stevedoring Company, under the direct supervision of Captain Langford. When seen this afternoon Captain Langford scouted the ...
Article : 264 wordsA remarkable feature of the disaster is the fact that only those members of the crew who could swim were saved. The carpenter and second officer swam ashore. ...
Article : 346 wordsThe socialist demonstrations which took place at Berlin in January of last year in favour of reform of the Prussian franchise, have been renewed in the province of ...
Article : 226 wordsThe first month of the new year has been marked with a revival in the shipbuilding trade. Reports from the shipbuilding yards of the Tyne and Clyde for the month of ...
Article : 53 wordsTin Statistics.—Total stocks (including stocks in America and quantity afloat) amount to 22,441 tons. The quantity of Straits and Australian on spot and landing ...
Article : 60 wordsThe deputy postmaster-general (Mr.G. Waddy) states that a mail for South Africa was sent by the Clan Ranald, containing all letters specially marked by the senders ...
Article : 39 wordsThe only steamer which has arrived at Port Adelaide that might have been in the vicinity of the wreck is the Uganda, which arrived from Calcutta at 3.15 o'clock this ...
Article : 202 wordsSouth Australia has had recorded against her many maritime casualties of a serious nature, but for the loss of life the latest disaster stands out the most prominent of ...
Article : 152 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—The steamship Innamincka, bound from Cairns to Brisbane, on October 10, when in latitude 23deg. south and longitude 151.52deg. east, with the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe coloured survivors include 5 sailors, 11 firemen, 3 quartermasters, and 1 servant. Several speak English slightly, and from them some particulars of the disaster were ...
Article : 215 wordsThe disclosures made by the Russian, Azeff, who, from being the chief terrorist organiser of the Revolutionary Society, became an agent of the police, have involved ...
Article : 220 wordsAustria has joined with Great Britain and Russua in the proposal that friendly representations be made by the powers to Turkey and Bulgaria, with a view to ...
Article : 94 wordsThough it is naturally one of the finest parts of Melbourne, the east end of Collins-street has gradually obtained an unpleasant reputation as the haunt of disreputable ...
Article : 314 wordsTroubridge Hill, which is 103ft. above sea-level, is on the east point of Sturt Bay. It presents a cliff's face to the sea, but on the landward side is grassy and sloping. ...
Article : 229 wordsTowards this fund we have received 1/ from "Anon." ...
Article : 12 wordsThe first mate, Mr. F. H. Rose, states:— "We sailed from Port Adelaide at 7.9 on Sunday morning, and all went well till shortly after 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when ...
Article : 225 wordsPainful injuries were sustained yesterday by a youth named Davidson, a resident of Footseray. He was engaged in driving a picnic van owned by Mr. Gant, of ...
Article : 145 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.— A remarkable tragedy occurred at Jille's Plains, six miles out of Adelaide, on Sunday night. Mrs. Catherine Hoffstatter, who had not been ...
Article : 280 wordsThe tug Eagle, with the survivors on board, arrived at port Adelaide about 7.15 to-night. A large crowd congregated on the wharf, and sent ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Turkish Grand Vizier Kiamil Pasha has sent a sharp note to the Bulgarian Governemnt, asking whether Bulgaria intends to resume nogotiations. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Clan Ranald was a sister ship of the Clan Alpine, which is now loading a cargo of grain at Williamstown for the United Kingdom. When news of the disaster was ...
Article : 727 wordsBEULAH, Monday.—About 70,000 bags of wheat have been delivered locally. Of this quantity some 25,000 bags have been trucked from the railway station; while the majority ...
Article : 102 wordsKERANG, Monday.—Mr. Lewis Clarke's party of five travelling from Melbourne for the opening of the duck season had a motor mishap near Durham Ox. The car was ...
Article : 91 wordsOMEO, Jan. 20 — Mr. R. Riggall, of Cobungra, has had an unusual experience for this district with a crop of about 10 acres of Algerian oats. He cut it in October 1907, in April, 1908, and ...
Article : 63 wordsThere has been considerable talk in the city about the fact that the steamer Warooka was at Edithburgh, not far from the scene of the disaster, and did not go to the ...
Article : 427 wordsAre preferred by lovers of good things. Guaranteed hand-made.—[Advt.] Are you a Nestle's Milk baby? Ask your friends, and see how many say "yes" ...
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Article : 47 wordsTeaches the efficiency of Pears' Soap.— [Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 2 Feb 1909, Page 5
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